"of Devon which is administered by Devon County Council for the purposes of local government. Devon County Council is controlled by the Conservatives, and the political representation of its 62 councillors are: 38 Conservatives, 9 Liberal Democrats, seven Labour, four UKIP, three Independents and one Green. At the 2015 general election, Devon returned 11 Conservatives and one Labour MP from its 12 constituencies through first-past-the-post. The county is represented in the wider South West England (European Parliament constituency), which returned two UKIP, two Conservative, one Labour and one Green MEP at the 2014 election using the d'Hondt method of party-list"
"constituency. The constituency was created in 2010 when it was won by Conservative Anne Marie Morris. Newton Abbot has two seats on Devon County Council. These are Newton Abbot North and Newton Abbot South. In the 2013 County Council elections, Newton Abbot North was won by Eve Barisic (Conservative) having previously been won by the Liberal Democrats in 2009 and Newton Abbot South was retained by sitting Councillor Gordon Hook (Liberal Democrats). The town is represented by 9 district Councillors on Teignbridge District Council and has a Town Council. Coombeshead Academy is a comprehensive school, located on Coombeshead Road. The"
"the county from 11 to 12. It replaces the southern part of the former ""Teignbridge seat"", including the town of Newton Abbot itself, as well as Dawlish and Teignmouth. Nominally the 2010 results was a gain of the seat (LD-Conservative) on a swing of 5.8%. Teignbridge's other successor saw a very similar 6% swing with a much larger margin for the same winning party in Central Devon in the 2010 election. The constituency is in the district of Teignbridge and has electoral wards: Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency) Newton Abbot is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of"
"Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556. Newton Abbot grew very rapidly in the Victorian era as it was home to the South Devon Railway locomotive works. This later became a major steam engine shed and was retained to service British Railways diesel locomotives, although it closed in 1981 and is now the site of the Brunel industrial estate.The town has a racecourse nearby, the most westerly racecourse in England, and has a country park, Decoy. The town is twinned"
"Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency) Newton Abbot is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Anne-Marie Morris. In each election Morris was elected as a Conservative. Morris was suspended from her party on 10 July 2017 after making a racist comment in public, and sat as an Independent MP until the Conservative Party whip was restored to Morris on 12 December 2017. Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposing to create this constituency for the 2010 general election which increased the number of seats in"
"Sutton and Devonport; at just over 18, she was the youngest candidate to stand in the general election in England. In the 2017 general election, the party fielded no candidates. The party runs candidates in elections on the local, national and European level. In local elections in 2008 the party gained one councillor, Clive Griffiths, a former Labour councillor who joined the party and was re-elected unopposed to Hirwaun and Penderyn Community Council as a communist. In the 2009 and 2014 European Parliament elections the party supported the NO2EU alliance led by the RMT union. The party also ran in"
"Liberal Democrats at the 2001 general election. Younger-Ross successfully defended the seat in 2005, with a majority of 6,215 over the Conservatives' Stanley Johnson, the father of Boris Johnson. Following a review of parliamentary representation in Devon by the Boundary Commission for England, which increased the number of seats in the county from 11 to 12, the Teignbridge constituency was abolished. The southern part, including the main towns of Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, formed the new Newton Abbot seat, while the northern portion formed part of Central Devon. Teignbridge (UK Parliament constituency) Teignbridge was, from 1983 until 2010, a"
"play at the Recreation Ground. The headquarters of Devon County Football Association is in the town. Newton Abbot's cricket club, South Devon C. C., was established in 1851 and also play at the Recreation Ground. The town also has a long-standing rugby union club, Newton Abbot RFC (established 1873), who play home games at Rackerhayes in nearby Kingsteignton. Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England, with a population of 25,556. Newton Abbot grew very rapidly in the Victorian era as it was home to the"
"The council had been under no overall control since the 1983, until the Conservatives gained a majority in the 2011 elections. The political composition of the borough has been as follows: Teignbridge contains the following towns and villages: Teignbridge Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Newton Abbot. Other towns in the district include Ashburton, Dawlish and Teignmouth. It is named for the old Teignbridge hundred. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth urban"
"Newton Abbot RFC Newton Abbot Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based the town of Kingsteignton, just outside of Newton Abbot in Devon. The club runs six senior teams and a ladies side as well as the full range of junior teams. The first XV play in South West Premier, a level five league in the English rugby union system. Newton Abbot RFC was founded in 1873. During the early years of the club the kit changed from green and red hoops to red, white and amber in 1897, before settling with an all white kit in"
"by the party since 1935 and so too Newton. The party's two successive candidates for MP have won an absolute majority (plurality) of the votes since 1987 (inclusive). The Conservative Party fielded the runner-up candidate in 2010 and 2015. Neither the Liberal Democrats nor the Green candidate won 5% of the vote in 2015 to retain their deposits. The third place in 2015 was taken by the UKIP candidate, Smith, who narrowly gained more than the national average swing through a swing of 10.4%. Turnout has ranged from 77.4% in 1992 to 52.7% in 2001. The seat includes the large"
"Teignbridge Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Newton Abbot. Other towns in the district include Ashburton, Dawlish and Teignmouth. It is named for the old Teignbridge hundred. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth urban districts along with Newton Abbot Rural District and part of St Thomas Rural District. Elections to the borough council are held every four years, with all of the 46 seats on the council being elected at each election."
"Party, who won the seat in the 2005 General Election. It is also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Overlooking the village are several hills and valleys which support a rich diversity of wildlife. Goblin Combe is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) originally notified in 1999, with being managed as a nature reserve by the Avon Wildlife Trust. A population of the nationally scarce plant stinking hellebore (""Helleborus foetidus"") grows on scree slopes in the combe, near Cleeve Toot; it"
"far-right organisations, though party leader Robin Tilbrook has stated that party members are expected to pledge their opposition to racism. The party has had limited electoral success and has been regarded by some as a fringe party. At the English local elections in June 2009, the party's candidate Peter Davies won the mayoral election for the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. However, he announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013. In 1998, in response to calls for the devolution of power to Scotland and Wales, Robin Tilbrook aimed at reforming the English National Party, which had ceased operating"
"from the Liberal Democrats - compared with a 2.3% swing between the two parties nationally. In 2015 the Liberal Democrat vote collapsed and they came third behind UKIP and the Conservatives. Geoffrey Cox was elected with an absolute majority. In 2017 the absence of UKIP saw Labour come second behind the Conservatives. Geoffrey Cox further increased the size of his absolute majority, which became the largest in Devon and Cornwall. The economy of the area is dominated by sectors such as agriculture, food processing, defence, hospitality, construction, maintenance and engineering and from Bideford and Northam a small amount of fishing;"
"Northern Party The Northern Party was a regionalist political party in Northern England, founded by leader Michael Dawson and former Blackpool MP Harold Elletson in March 2015 to contest five marginal seats in Lancashire at the 2015 general election. The party was one of three regionalist parties contesting the general election in the north of England. Members included former activists from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties. Michael Dawson, a former Executive Committee member of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, is the nephew of former MP for Lancaster Hilton Dawson who now runs the North East Party."
"Newton Abbot railway station Newton Abbot railway station serves the town of Newton Abbot in Devon, England. It is down the line from and measured from via , at the junction for the branch to . The station today is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide the train service along with CrossCountry. For many years, it was also the junction for Moretonhampstead and the site of a large locomotive workshop. The station was opened by the South Devon Railway Company on 30 December 1846 when its line was extended from Teignmouth railway station. It was opened through to on"
"(although they too have stood candidates in Monmouthshire), One England, the English People's Party, the English Radical Alliance, the England First Party, and the English Independence Party. The Green Party has had an amicable split from Scottish counterpart, and the Wales Green Party section is becoming increasingly autonomous. The Conservative Party has adopted a policy of English Votes on English Legislation (EVoEL). The Conservative policy of EVoEL aims to prevent MPs with constituencies outside of England from voting on legislation that only affects England. There is a significant element within the Conservative Party that supports full devolution for England with"
"Party in 1985; the first conference was in June 1973 at ""The Allesley Hotel"" at the A4114/A45 junction south of the main Jaguar works in Allesley, in west Coventry. In the 1992 general election, Nuneaton was taken by Labour with a 7% swing, which was one of the largest swings of the night; in the 2015 election, the Nuneaton result would largely seal the eventual outcome of the election. In the 2010 general election, North Warwickshire (Dan Byles) had the smallest Conservative majority, with 54; Stoke-on-Trent Central had the smallest number of winning votes, with 12,220. In the 2015 general"
"This has fallen into disrepair in recent years, although both training pitches are of decent quality. Reserve and youth fixtures are fulfilled on these pitches. Newton Abbot RFC Newton Abbot Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based the town of Kingsteignton, just outside of Newton Abbot in Devon. The club runs six senior teams and a ladies side as well as the full range of junior teams. The first XV play in South West Premier, a level five league in the English rugby union system. Newton Abbot RFC was founded in 1873. During the early years of"
"limits. Sadiq received 61 votes. The party's only other candidate was long-time candidate and party president Murray Reid in Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke who received 490 votes. Dean Wasson has been the party's only leader, heading the party in the 1990 election. The party has not fielded a leader in any subsequent election, considering itself to be a grass roots organization, and will choose a leader if the party wins seats. The party's one candidate nominated in the 2003 election, Richard Butson, was cited as the ""de facto"" leader. After Butson's death in 2015, Eileen Butson was named as president of the party."
"Newport, and five other councils. The Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru had a net gain of 38 seats and won control of the Gwynedd Council (the council had shifted to Plaid control in June 2012, and is counted in the table above as a 'gain'); it also fell just short of controlling the Carmarthenshire County Council. The Conservatives had a net gain of 79 seats, and won control of one council, Monmouthshire; the Conservatives also became the largest party in Vale of Glamorgan and Denbighshire. In ten of the 22 councils, no party had overall control of the council. † In"
"North East Party The North East Party (NEP) is a regionalist political party in North East England founded in 2014 by 16 people including the former Labour MP Hilton Dawson and 7 members of the FAIR party. The party campaigns for a better deal for North East England generally and is committed to a devolved assembly in the North East with powers similar to those in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, if approved by a referendum. It says bodies such as the North East Combined Authority do not have a mandate to take on new responsibilities and representatives must be"
"candidate in the Devon seat of Newton Abbot for the 2010 United Kingdom General Election Results of the election held on 2 May 2013: Results of the election held on 4 June 2009: Results of the bye-election held on 3 May 2007: Results of the election held on 5 May 2005: Election Results - West Sussex County Council Cuckfield & Lucastes (electoral division) Cuckfield & Lucastes is an electoral division of West Sussex in England, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council. The division covers the town of Cuckfield and the western part of the town"
"directly-elected. Dawson stepped down as Chair of the party in June 2016 and was replaced by John Tait. Dawson remains active in the party taking on the role of Secretary and Nominating Officer. The NEP was founded in May 2014 and is widely seen as a sister party to the Yorkshire Party. In December 2014, the partyonly six months oldwon its first council seat at a local by-election for Peterlee Town Council in County Durham. Two months later, the party won a second seat on the council in another by-election. Following on these successes, the party contested and won several"
"in the House of Commons by Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative). Jonathan Djanogly has represented the constituency since 2001. The previous member of parliament was John Major (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1983 and 2001. Abbotsley is part of the East of England constituency which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Abbotsley village is 14 miles from the county town of Cambridge and 47 miles from London. It is on the B1046 road between Great Gransden and St Neots. The elevation of the parish is between 22 and 60 metres (72–197 feet) above sea level. The"
"Newton Abbot Spurs A.F.C. Newton Abbot Spurs Association Football Club is a football club based in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Recreation Ground. The club was established in August 1938 by Eric Butler, Fred Stopp and Terry Waye. They joined the South Devon Minor League, although the outbreak of World War II meant that the club spent the early 1940s playing friendly matches. In 1945 they joined the South Devon League, going on to win the league title in their first season in the league, as well as the Herald Cup,"
"the two decisive two-seat ward of the Newton. The count resumed on 9 May, and after a quick ""bundle recount"" suggested a Labour lead, the Conservative Party asked for a full recount, lasting another three and a half hours. The second recount revealed that Labour's Gill Watson led by 34 votes over the incumbent Adrian Walmsley in the final seat. The final result was delivered at 5.30 PM on 9 May 2015 after 14 hours of counting. The final results saw the Conservatives retain the largest share of the popular vote, but with a smaller proportion than at the previous"
"and became the largest party, though they did not have a majority. In the 2011 local elections, the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives won 29 seats each with the Labour Party winning only five seats; the Liberal Democrats went on to form a minority administration. In 2015, the Conservative Party became the first party to secure a majority, with 37 seats. The current council composes of 65 councillors, 32 from Bath, 6 each from the Norton Radstock and Keynsham areas, and 21 others. The current political division after the election of May 2015 is: Local concerns include the building of a"
"2009/2010 general election. They are thus: northern parts, including St. Budeaux, of the current constituency will become Plymouth Moor View and the rest will join with parts of Plymouth Sutton to form Plymouth Sutton and Devonport. The seat was won by Alison Seabeck (Labour party) in the 2005 general election. Labour Alison Seabeck 18,610 44.3 -14.0 Majority 8,101 19.3 Turnout 41,982 57.6 +1.0 It is also David Owen's former seat. Owen was a founder member (one of the Gang of Four, the other three being Baroness Shirley Williams, Lord Roy Jenkins and Lord Bill Rodgers) of the SDP and then"
"second to the Conservatives: in the Finningley ward of Doncaster and in three wards in Rochford. In the 2009 English local elections, the party fielded 84 county council and local authority candidates, with a particular focus in Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire and Lancashire. The party had an unexpected success when Peter Davies, its candidate for Mayor of Doncaster, was elected. Having received 16,961 votes in the first round, 189 votes behind the independent Michael Maye, Davies was returned in the second count on transfers of second preference votes, with 25,344 votes to 24,990. In 2010, the party"
"Sarah Newton Sarah Louise Newton, (born Sarah Louise Hick, 19 July 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Truro and Falmouth in 2010 and re-elected in 2015 and 2017. Born in Gloucestershire, Newton moved to Cornwall at an early age, and attended Marlborough Infants, Clare Terrace Primary School and Falmouth School, where she was elected Head Girl. After being brought up in Cornwall, Newton went up to King's College London where she read History, before completing a master's degree in the United States, studying as a Rotary International Scholar."
"town and community councils in North Yorkshire, Devon, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Essex and Wales. Totals include any in-year by-elections and defections, held/gain/loss are the changes since the start of the last municipal year. Figure from the BBC election results before 2003 lists Liberal Party seats amongst ""Others"" or ""Independents"". Liberal Party (UK, 1989) The Liberal Party () is a British political party that was founded in 1989 by members of the original Liberal Party opposed to its merger with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to form the Liberal Democrats. The party holds nine local council seats. The original Liberal Party entered"